Tag: Maritime Security
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Galileo Milestone
With applications in areas as diverse as SAR, active vessel traffic management, port approach and ship-to-shore coordination, the Galileo European Navigation Satellite System is destined to play a major role […]
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Guns seized from tanker at Milford Haven
Three shotguns and ammunition have been seized from the crew of an an oil tanker which docked in Milford Haven. Officers from the Border Force boarded the Panamanian-registered ship for […]
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Boost in capacity for EUNAVFOR
On 15 March 2012 counter-piracy forces from the European Union will gain another valuable asset with the addition of a Falcon 50 maritime surveillance aircraft from the French Navy. Based […]
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Who Gave the Order to Fire?
The continuing case of the incident involving the Italian Marines aboard the Enrica Lexie. Investigating magistrates have asked the Indian Police to ascertain who authorised the Marine’s actions; were they […]
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EU Assistance to Asia
As Europe’s growth is contingent on Asia’s prosperity, ensuring unrestricted navigation in Asia’s waterways is thus of the utmost strategic interest to the European Union. Given that Asia’s geopolitical hotspots […]
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Pirate Media
As the Maritime Security Review’s Editor-in-Chief has been warning for a long time now, Somali pirates make sophisticated use of social media tools and environments. Members of Somali pirate groups […]
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Gains Against Piracy
Andrew Shapiro, assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, addresses a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event on the current situation of Somali maritime piracy. Some Gains Against […]
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A Captain’s Duty
Tom Hanks to play Captain Phillips in a pirate film which may be titled Maersk Alabama after the name of Captain Phillips’ ship. The film will be concerned largely with […]
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US to Deploy Additional Minesweepers
According to the Jerusalem Post, a US Senate committee was told by the US Navy’s top officer on Thursday that the United States is sending four minesweeping ships and four […]
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Bell Done?!
According to the Associated Press, despite ongoing salvage efforts and the search for seven missing people presumed dead, the bell from the Costa Concordia has disappeared. Capsized cruise ship’s bell disappears off […]
